Champagne Papi returned the high praise with a few laudatory words of his own about Mr. Cole. "Listen, I'm gonna tell you one thing about me and this guy right here," Drake told the London crowd. "When I think of all my earliest memories when we were doing this shit... this is just for anybody... that has a dream, that has a vision. When I think of all my earliest memories there was always one guy that was always right there doing the same thing as me. Taking care of his people, showin' love, and it’s this man right here. He hasn't changed since the first day I met him."

"I can't wait to make some new music with you," he teased. "I know we been working. I can't wait to let these people hear it."

Drake' and Cole's announcement came just two days after Drake told another London crowd that he's started working on his new album — the follow-up to his last record, Scorpion, which dropped last Summer.

"I kinda actually started last night to be honest with you," he's heard saying fan-filmed video. "But I think what I’ma do after this is go home, and I’ma make a new album so I can come back to London next year and we can do this again."

After bringing out Future for one of his first London shows last week, Drake and the Atlanta rapper hopped on Instagram to tease an upcoming project. "What's that?" Drake said in the video as he held up two fingers, seemingly hinting that What a Time to Be Alive part two is on the way. "We gotta cook that up. That two."